Treasures

How many times have we heard these - 

I am the son of so and so, I am the father of so and so. I have lots of bank balance.

 What is the use? Most of it goes for payment to doctors / medicines!!! Do your connections / status make any difference?

There are two things which are lifeless. The younger generation of today should know this and take note.

1.     Position

2.     Possession.

 Man has given life to these two. We slog all our lives for these two only. Why? For what and for whom?

Example: You have reached a very big POSITION in your career. For which you have been waiting a long time. On Day 1 when you reach your new office to join your big POSITION, do you know what the chair is telling himself? “Look at this idiot. Thinks he is the only one who has sat here. But he does not know that I have seen hundreds like him before. They come and go but I have remained here.”

POSSESSIONS. Remember that Alexander The Great wanted his hands to be seen when his body would be carried in a coffin. Why? He said “I want everyone to see that I came into this world empty handed and am leaving empty handed. “

Why can’t we understand that all that we possess – physically – are worldly.

Yes. We do require to save for a rainy day. That should be enough. Enough so that you do not have to beg from anyone for y our daily needs.

Than what should we be after? Character.

A doctor cannot keep you alive indefinitely only through intravenous means. You have to take solid food to be alive. This food you have to digest yourself. No power on earth can be of any assistance in this matter. Similarly, we have to breathe on our own. 

You cannot breathe from outside unless you breathe by yourself one day. What does this mean?

That all the power that you require is within you. It has to come from inside. Not from outside. 

ALL THE POWER IS WITHIN US. 

Some might argue that it is the genes that makes us what we are today. But those who got prizes for understanding genes have said “Genes by themselves can never harm or make you. It is the environment that is responsible for the genes to make you or break you”

ENVIRONMENT. A very important word.  Good company, good thoughts, good deeds.  

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your actions. Your actions become your habits.  Your habits become your character. Your character becomes your destiny. Swami Vivekananda.